Pearl city crews were out early Monday loading up deicing materials. City officials plan to position road crews throughout the city so they can respond if ice pops up on the roads.

The Mississippi Department of Transportation is taking a wait-and-see approach before putting out any deicing material for fear that it could get iced over.

"If it rains, we want to make sure we go in behind that to make sure that none of it washes away," Kenny Foote of MDOT said. "This stuff has a shelf-life and we don't want it to be moved to the side by the vehicles and the rain."

Drivers who do have to be on the roads are urged to leave early and give themselves plenty of time to get where they're going.